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La Comédie humaine - Volume 07. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 03Beaucoup de personnes ont d rencontrer dans certaines provinces de France plus ou moins de chevaliers de Valois: il en existait un en Normandie, il s'en trouvait un autre Bourges,...

The Arts and Crafts of Ancient EgyptThis present handbook is intended to aid in the understanding of Egyptian art, and the illustrations and descriptions are selected for that purpose only. The history of the art would require a far greater range of examples, in...

Noémie Hollemechette: Journal d'une petite réfugiée belgeMAMAN ma dit ce matin: Nous allons partir en vacances, tu vas ainsi passer deux mois au bord de la mer Heyst. Tu nauras rien faire, aucun devoir; mais je vais te donner une ide qui sera une...

Watermelon Pete and Others THE BUTTERFLY BABIES BOOK WATERMELON PETE AND OTHERS GRANDDAD COCO NUTS PARTY DOLLY AND MOLLY AT THE SEASHORE DOLLY AND MOLLY AT THE CIRCUS DOLLY AND MOLLY AND THE FARMER MAN DOLLY AND MOLLY ON CHRISTMAS DAY One night when...

For the Sake of the Soldier: Voluntary Work of Brisbane WomenAnyone called on to write a preface for a book describing the efforts of women for the sake of the soldier should not complain of want of material for his purpose. All over the...

Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental TestingAs an interpretation of the results which have been obtained with mental tests, this book lies between the topics of deficiency and delinquency. It is an attempt to discover the significance of objective measurements of ability in...

PetroleumAlthough numerous volumes have been written upon petroleum, and some very educational works on this important subject are to be found in technological literature, it is strange that prior to the appearance of this little book, it has been impossible to turn to any...

The Story of a Loaf of BreadI have ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, milling and baking, subjects on which everyone has his own opinion. In the earlier chapters I have tried to give a brief...

Psychology: an elementary text-bookPsychology has a long past, yet its real history is short. For thousands of years it has existed and has been growing older; but in the earlier part of this period it cannot boast of any continuous progress toward a riper...

The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth PartGentlemen We see there is a necessity for our travailing in the common road or High-way of Prefacing; as if the Reader could neither receive nor digest the Pabulum...

Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsTHESE Prolegomena are destined for the use, not of pupils, but of future teachers, and even the latter should not expect that they will be serviceable for the systematic exposition of a ready-made science, but merely for the discovery...

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar - A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Societyp. 2In some papers this Pamphlet was advertised as published at Sixpence; it has been found, however, desirable to alter the price. To those...

Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)No word of Preface is necessary to this Volume, except to say that in presenting it to his readers, the author feels that that he is fulfilling a promise made to them when Volume...

That Awful Letter: A Comedy for GirlsThese songs can be used in all manner of entertainments. The music is easy, and both music and words are especially catchy. Children like them. Everybody likes them. Sheet music. Price 25 cents each. Five copies, $1.00. WE...

Lightships and LighthousesRomances innumerable have been woven around the flaming guardians of the coast, but it is doubtful whether any purely imaginative work is so fascinating and absorbing as the plain unvarnished narrative of how some famous lightship or lighthouse has been brought into...

With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus ConynghamMr. James Nesbit, merchant of Philadelphia, stood leaning against the long, polished desk at the farther end of which two clerks were hard at work copying entries into a ponderous ledger. On...

The Philadelphia Housewife; or, Family Receipt BookAs the health of a family depends more upon the quality of their food than upon any other cause whatever, it is a public benefaction to give good advice upon this subject. That this advice may be most...

The Philosophy of Giambattista VicoMy reasons for believing that a new exposition of Vico's philosophy is required may easily be inferred from the observations on the effects of his work and the biographical notes which form respectively the second and fourth appendices to this...

On the Wallaby Through VictoriaThis is not supposed to be a national or political history of Victoria. When I was asked to write something about the country which has extended its hospitality to me, and given me bread and cheesesometimes no cheese, it is...

The Story of Majorca and MinorcaThe story of the Islands of Majorca and Minorca has never been told in our language in a condensed form, although the interest is great from an historical point of view, and the materials sufficient, though not perhaps abundant....